February 16, 2012 — Psychostimulant drugs are effective for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) because when they activate the dopamine D4 receptors in the basal ganglia ...

The prevalence of noncocaine psychostimulant use disorder (UD) increased 12-fold between 2001 and 2020 among Medicaid enrollees aged 25-29 years and eightfold in those aged 18-24 years, a new study ...

Psychostimulants, including amphetamine-type stimulants and methylphenidate, are most often prescribed to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers describes (“Characterization of the brain functional architecture of psychostimulant withdrawal using single-cell whole brain imaging“) in eNeuro how ...

Six weeks of treatment with methylphenidate did no better than placebo for improving cancer-related fatigue (CRF). The results continued a pattern of inconsistency in outcomes of studies investigating ...

Headlines about America’s drug crisis have long centered on opioids such as heroin and fentanyl. But a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paints a more complicated ...

It has long been known that psychostimulant drugs have the paradoxical effect of reducing hyperactivity. [Psychostimulant drugs include methylphenidate – known by the trade names Ritalin, Concerta, ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

Canada should consider prescribing psychostimulant medications to reduce the use and harms from illegal stimulants, such as cocaine and methamphetamine, since nearly half of all people who died from ...